This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts elaborated by Austin and others. He argues that language should he viewed not only as a means of communication but also as a medium of power through which individuals pursue their own interests and display their practical competence. Drawing on the concepts that are part of his distinctive theoretical approach. Bourdieu maintains that linguistic utterances or expressions can be understood as the product of the relation between a linguistic market" and it "linguistic habitus." When individuals use language in particular ways, they deploy their accumulated linguistic resources and implicitly adapt their words to the demands of the social held or market that is their audience. Hence every linguistic interaction, however personal or insignificant it may seem, hears the traces of the social structure that it both expresses and helps to reproduce. Bourdieu's account sheds fresh light on the ways in which linguistic usage varies according to considerations such as class and gender. It also opens up a new approach to the ways in which language is used in the domain of politics. For politics is, among other things, the arena in which words are deeds and the symbolic character of power is at stake. This volume, by one of the leading social thinkers in the world today, represents a major contribution to the study of language and power. It will be of interest to students throughout the social sciences and humanities, especially in sociology, politics, anthropology, linguistics, and literature.

布迪厄社会实践理论的创立具有深刻的社会历史根源和时代背景，同时，他在创立社会实践理论过程中，深受黑格尔辩证法、马克思主义、现象学、结构主义等思想的影响。《布迪厄的社会实践理论》将从“社会实践空间：场域”、“社会实践工具：资本”、“社会实践逻辑：惯习”等方面进行了介绍。

布赫迪厄是法國當代社會學的重量級人物。本書以淺顯易懂的論述，完整介紹布赫迪厄社會學體系的內涵。首先討論布赫迪厄的社會學特點, 例如習態（habitus），區異（distinction），品味，社會的再生產等觀念，以及影響他社會學方法和概念的歷史背景及理論背景。接著試圖去了解他那些用來描述及解釋社會運作邏輯和行動者行動的主要概念。最後由“布赫迪厄派“的作者們，以有關文化，學校以及其他主題的研究，來驗證或修改布赫迪厄的假設及方法的正確性。本書能幫助讀者在進入布赫迪厄深奧厚重的原典之前，先獲致一初步而清楚的整體概念，是一本立論嚴謹的初階入門書。 皮耶．布赫迪厄，1930年生於法國庇里牛斯山—大西洋省裡的東泔市，先後在波城中學、大路易中學、巴黎大學文科和高等師範學院受教育、取得哲學教師資格的學銜。1955年被任命為磨坊中學教授，1958年到1960年任教於阿爾及爾大學文學院，1961年到1964年在里耳任職，自1964年起任教於法國高等社會科學院，1981年正式任職於法蘭西學院(College de France)社會學教授。同時是高等社會科學院、歐洲社會學中心的指導教授，並主編1975年創刊的《社會科學研究學報》。著有《再生產》、《區異》、《世界的悲慘》、《實踐理論的概論》、《繼承者》等書。

兩位國際社會學大師的重要精采對話！ 重要的社會學經典著作、重要的社會學家之學術辯論，通過本書，更深入了解布赫迪厄以及當代西方社會學理論！ 本書以一種「邀請」或「導引」的方式，亦即邀請或導引讀者與布赫迪厄一起進行思考，然後（再）來思考布赫迪厄本人。 本書源自於布赫迪厄在美國芝加哥大學與一群研究社會學、人類學和政治學的博士生之間的交流。這些交談從不同的角度對同一個問題做出分析，並且嘗試以不同的方式和角度討論同一種概念，譬如社會學中強調的「實踐」與「反思」。而這些不同的方式可以作為橋梁，有助於讀者對它們在使用意圖和涵義方面的複雜性和彼此差異有更充分的理解。 此外，貫穿全書的學術交談有助於在對象領域和對對象的研究工作之間建立起快捷、有效且具有啟發性的和諧關聯、類比乃至對比關係。這個對話可以使讀者感知布赫迪厄何以達致他的立場的心路歷程。總之，分析性交談引起人們對研究方式本身的關注，並使布赫迪厄和讀者能夠以一種不受常規學術交流固有的監督審查限制的方式彼此進行溝通。 本書由三部分組成。第一部分是詮釋性的或評註性的，通過勾畫出布赫迪厄有關知識、實踐和社會的理論結構及其學術圖景的輪廓，向讀者提供了理解布赫迪厄著作的廣博體系和內在理路的捷徑；第二部分是分析性的，主要反映芝加哥大學研討班的成就；第三部分以更為具體的社會學訓練的問題為出發點，例如以巴黎研討班的討論為基礎，反思布赫迪厄與社會學的實踐。 本書建議讀者涉獵不同經驗領域的各類論文，交替閱讀偏重經驗取向和理論取向的篇章，並且最關鍵的是，將布赫迪厄「轉譯」為讀者較熟知的語彙之前，用他本人的術語來理解他，因為他各種主張的論述風格和實質觀點是密不可分的。

Over the last three decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the influence of his work, no single introduction to his wide-ranging "oeuvre" is available. This book, intended for an English-speaking audience, offers a systematic and accessible overview, providing interpretive keys to the internal logic of Bourdieu's work by explicating thematic and methodological principles underlying his work. The structure of Bourdieu's theory of knowledge, practice, and society is first dissected by Loï c Wacquant; he then collaborates with Bourdieu in a dialogue in which they discuss central concepts of Bourdieu's work, confront the main objections and criticisms his work has met, and outline Bourdieu's views of the relation of sociology to philosophy, economics, history, and politics. The final section captures Bourdieu in action in the seminar room as he addresses the topic of how to practice the craft of reflexive sociology. Throughout, they stress Bourdieu's emphasis on reflexivity--his inclusion of a theory of intellectual practice as an integral component of a theory of society--and on method--particularly his manner of posing problems that permits a transfer of knowledge from one area of inquiry into another. Amplified by notes and an extensive bibliography, this synthetic view is essential reading for both students and advanced scholars. Pierre Bourdieu is Professor of Sociology at the Collè ge de France. Loï c J. D. Wacquant is a Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University.